Plenty of reason to oppose arming teachers

This is why armed guards/police officers/teachers won't work in our public schools. Our high schools are huge, with many halls and entrances to accommodate 400 to 3,000 students. Therefore, one armed guard is needed per entrance. The National Rifle Association is unwilling to help defray these added costs for protecting our children. Even then there is no guarantee that a guard could arrive at the scene within minutes to stop a perpetrator. Remember that 26 people were killed within 10 minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In Central New York, most elementary school are single-story buildings, with many windows in each classroom. What's to stop a perpetrator from shooting at the children through these windows? Do we plan to contain students in windowless schools, with more armed security, similar to our prisons?

The public has been unjustly accusing teachers of incompetence for years. Yet now that same public wants these teachers to carry a gun, when teachers are forbidden to lay a finger on students. Just what do you expect from teachers besides their willingness to lay down their lives for their students, as the Sandy Hook staff did?

Yes, we do need better mental health laws and better safeguards for violence in TV, movies and videos. We also need to ban those high-capacity magazines for bullets. Most of all, we need to take the weapons that were used at Sandy Hook, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine and hundreds of other shootings off the street and out of our homes!